Of rural and exten five Gardening. lo^ 

 ving that trad of Ground, that is left there f 

 befides the Stream running exaftly under the 

 Hill, is very beautiful and conformable to 

 the Songs^ of the ancient, and beft of our 

 modern Poets* To this we may add^ that it 

 is always fliady and cool in one fide or 

 other, even in the middle of the hotteft Sul- 

 try Day. 



And thefe Ditches will likewife divide the 

 Meadows, into fo many Parts and Lots, that 

 it will be alfo ufeful in the keeping, and 

 feeding of Cattle feparately, and will be no 

 difadvantage to the Grals^^ defignd for 

 Hay. 



If any Body is fo frugal, as to chjeSt^ 

 that the Walks and Coppices in this Defign 

 take up a great deal of Ground, it cari,- 

 not be denied that there is fbmething of 

 Truth in it 5 but not fo much, as appears 

 by this Draught, the Scale whereof is fo Imall, 

 that the Walks and Hedge-Rows could not 

 be {hown, but by making them wider than 

 in Reality they need to be ^ and this confi- 

 derably lefTens the Quantity of Land in the 

 Infide 5 for^ whereas thefe Walks and Hedge- 

 Rows are moft of them forty or fifty Foot 

 wide, there is no Occafion to have any 

 Hedge-Row, Walk and all, above 24 Foot, 

 (vfz.) eight the Walk, and eight the Hedge- 

 Row, on each fide ; and as for others, 

 where there is no Hedge-Row, but only 

 Lines of Trees, and Dwarf Eufhes between 



them 



